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I have an ASUS G50Vt with a GeForce 9800M GS card. During my installation of Arch, I figured I'd settle with the Nouveau driver because it's easy to install. Now I want to upgrade to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.36 driver. How would I go about disabling Nouveau and installing the new one? I was thinking:
# pacman -R xf86-video-nouveau
# killall Xorg
# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.36.run
Would this work, or are there other things I need to account for as well?
Last edited by jboons (2011-01-26 22:59:32)
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Don't use the nvidia installer!!
Just install the nvidia and nvidia-utils packages with pacman. Then reboot. Those two packages already contain the necessary configuration files. Rebooting is not strictly necessary, but it's the easiest method.
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Don't use the nvidia installer!!
Just install the nvidia and nvidia-utils packages with pacman. Then reboot. Those two packages already contain the necessary configuration files. Rebooting is not strictly necessary, but it's the easiest method.
Huh, alright, good to know. Thanks!
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